- Complete friendship is awesome; friendships based on pleasure or usefulness is less so.
- But these last two types can seem like complete friendship because they're based on what's pleasant.
- And good friends are pleasant to each other.
- Good friends are also useful to each other. But friendships based only on what is useful and fun fall apart when the advantage to each friend is removed.
- Wicked people can have friendships of utility or pleasure. They can't love a person just because they're lovable and good.
- Also, trust isn't likely to spring up among the wicked—and trust is essential to a proper friendship.
- So Aristotle proclaims complete friendship the authoritative definition of friendship. The other two types are only kinda-sorta friendship.